The first thought of the 1960's in America people often think of hippies, flower power and phrases like no war man! but we quickly forget about another group of people. The darker group, the underground crowd their leader was Andy Warhol. A man who was changing art with his peers and looking at the world in a very different way. He was at the forefront of pop art; a bright and edgy new art style. Warhol and other artists changed the quantity and quality of art per artist while they upped the anty for progression. Warhol was the fourth boy of his family and was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a kid he was very creative but could not play sports because he had contracted chorea a disease of the nervous system and soon after became a hypochondriac. He was always talented and very interested in art and when he attended School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology he studied in Fine Arts. After when he moved to New York many people started to take notice of Warhol's work, when he got a job in a magazine creating illustrations. Not only was Warhol a painter but he was a director and promoted The Velvet Underground. A rock band that would change rock music forever. He first started using the video camera to do screen tests on people. It was when a person sat down in front of the camera and he simply videotaped them being themselves.His movies were usually to show the real emotions of people, he did have some success in his home movies. Many of his paintings included simple house hold objects like Campbell's cans, coke bottles and Brillos. He did mostly silk screens. Silk screening is when an artist obtains a woven material to hold stencil over it while the artist places paints over the material, the paint goes into the open places of the material and creates a painting.This technique let artists do much more painting in a certain amount of time they could also do copies and different variations of the same idea.He was very smoothly combining commercial arts with fine arts. Many people enjoyed this type of art while many did not, they simply though the had no talent. Any man with some paint and a cloth could do that. People portrayed his paintings as not original or progressive but as simple. In their minds they saw no progression but regression. That is were the argument begins about Warhol's art. Was he just a man with spray paint or was he a man with a fresh new idea about American culture? In my opinion he was what art needed at that time. America was changing and sooner or later the art had to. Without new ideas and concepts there would be no progression, everything would be the same and boring. The 60's were all about refreshing the reality of America and what the young people could really do. Warhol got very lucky to be apart of this time because people had a very open minds at this time and wanted to try everything they could. Warhol did paint very simple and well known objects but it was the way he expressed them. He twisted them into a vision and idea, we could have never seen. To me he was taking American's culture and simply splashing it into their faces again and again. Was the actual painting of the silk screens hard, no but coming up with the inspiration was. Only a hand full of people knew what to do with those simple ideas and turn them into fine art. To me being and artist is being able to see things in a different light and expressing them through whatever. Warhol did this so easily and gracefully. He played a major part in art in that time and in history. Today everyone around the world looks at what Warhol and his peers did and still admire them and appreciate them.